NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD Radeon R9 290X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

AMD Radeon R9 290X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +7%

6.06 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +46%

5754

Radeon R9 290X

3925

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

Radeon R9 290X

Graphics Card

Jun 2015

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 900

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1076 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

336.6GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

2816

Shading Units

2816

176

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

103.3 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

189.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

-

6.060 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

189.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

290W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM200

GPU Name

Hawaii

GM200-310-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

601 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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